In product management, it is so easy to just keep filling the role. Creating strategy, understand the market, refining stories, etc. You can go about your day and get things…
Product Management: Successfully Combining Business and Engineering
Common question to product managers, “Are you more technical or more business driven?”. I say, for a successful product manager, you should have knowledge of both. Confusing, I know but…
Apple “Health Records” in HomeKit, FHIR and what it means for healthcare.
Apple is a beast. Usually, when they support something in iOS, it inevitably causes complete shifts in markets. Many businesses are born and others die. So, when Apple announced this…
Conquering Healthcare Analytics: Consolidate, Prepare, De-identify and Analyze
In a previous article, Conquering Analytics: Collection, Validation, Enhancement, Accessibility, I spoke about how to handle data in a complex, general, analytics system. In this article, I am going to…
Success in goal setting
If you are building a product, you should always set specific, measurable goals. Measurable goals are good for morale and give your teams something to work for. All your defined,…
Finding Employment in the Austin Tech Market, It’s Not Easy
Finding a job isn’t easy. Finding a job in Austin, a market saturated with tech talent, great weather, lots of small to large companies, is even harder. I recently left…
QOTD: tie to goals
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.- Albert Einstein
Product: What does it mean to “Listen”?
In this first part of a two part series on product management core functions, I want to discuss one of the most fundamentally important parts of the job, listening. So,…
QOTD: Time
The most valuable asset we have is time. If someone gives you their time, treat it as such and be gracious.
Know Your Users and Test Often
By using agile methods to continuously improve and move your product(s) forward, you can understand who your consumers are through investigation and experimentation. Knowing your consumers is essential to having…